Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before, but never before could you drop by a record store and find racks of psychedelic records, by groups like the Mothers of Invention and the Grateful Dead. Never before could you go down to The Boston Tea Party (get the name) and see the show and watch it happen in the corner. And more than that, never before could you eat at the Freshman Union and hear them talking grass right there in the open...
Still, somewhere in the back of Monro's head there was probably the idea that what happened at those other Ivy colleges might happen here. At Princeton the dean, informed by the authorities to clean his own house or they would do it for him, called the known drug users there to his office and told them to "throw the stuff in the river" or there would be trouble. Some did, but seven were arrested, and the New York Daily News had a field...
...only happen among cerebral females, the girls quickly came to see their boycott as a strike for "freedom." They reported, by the fifth day, that "four have already become too weak to go on; one of them, Carole Adams, is in the infirmary." They published an elaborate history of their dealings with Mrs. Bunting, in which they tried to annotate her practice of dealing in bad faith. In the newspapers, Mrs. Bunting came across as a hard-hearted administrator, "maintaining silence in face of the fast" and professing her inability to "do anything, although they're perfectly free to express...
They know that power is to be achieved through organization and at the same time are learning how best to organize themselves. More important, they believe that power should be shared, not held in awe by those who happen not to have...
...last year MacBird (we are told) has been circulating at anti-war rallies and publishers' luncheons, waiting for a cause to happen to it. None did, and the critics made their own. MacDonald, Brustein, Clureman and Robert Lowell declared the play a theatrical experience of sheer delight, even if its political argument was pernicious nonsense; Kerr and Lionel Abel took no delight at all in the politics, and found no other grounds for applause. MacBird's referents in real life are obvious and tangible: a jowly, gutter-mouthed Lyndon Johnson supported by assorted cronies and a megalomaniacal wife; a string...